U+105F "ၟ" Myanmar Consonant Sign Mon Medial Ma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+105F "ၟ" Myanmar Consonant Sign Mon Medial Ma is a diacritical mark used in the Mon language, which is written with the Myanmar script, to form a consonant cluster by indicating a medial "ma" sound following a base consonant. It appears as a small superscript mark attached to the left side of a consonant character, and its primary function is to modify the pronunciation of the syllable, creating a cluster like "hma" or "mma" depending on the base consonant. This character is part of the Myanmar Extended-A block and is specifically utilized in Mon language orthography to represent a phonetic feature not present in standard Burmese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+105F |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Myanmar Consonant Sign Mon Medial Ma |
| Block | Myanmar |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ၟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ၟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x81 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x105F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000105F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u105f |